The SCIEX 5500+ system and SCIEX 5500+ system – QTRAP are equipped to conquer your laboratory’s most complex workflows and opportunities. With either of these LC-MS/MS system, you have the sensitivity and performance to meet analytical and regulatory demands for low-level trace detection with ease.
Features
Turbo V ion source
Simplistic source architecture and orthogonal spray design provides uniform temperature distribution and delivers extraordinary robustness and ruggedness across a wide range of compound types
OptiFlow Turbo V ion source
Switch to the optional OptiFlow Turbo V ion source for low-flow analyses. It is robust and simple to operate, and supports a wide flow rate range of 1 - 2000 µL/min.
HED detector and high capacity CEM
Increased productivity with fast polarity switching of 5 msec enabling up to 6 orders of magnitude of linear dynamic range
Scout triggered MRM (stMRM)
Eliminate the need to maintain precise retention times for all analytes in MRM acquisition methods
Mass range
A range of 5 to 1250 m/z encompasses many compound classes, enabling your organization to test for more analytes and explore your laboratory’s potential
Patented Dual QJet ion guide
Improved ion sampling, collisional focusing and ion transmission for outstanding sensitivity
Patented Curtain Gas interface
Proven protection against mass contamination providing consistent data quality over long runs with minimal downtime
MRM acquisition rate
With an acquisition rate of 500 MRMs per secound, even without using Scheduled MRM, the SCIEX 5500+ system series can analyze an extensive suite of compounds
Delivering accurate and consistent quantitation
These mass spectrometers will exceed your expectations. The series was engineered to address the things that matter to you most: robustness, sensitivity, maximum uptime, maximum productivity and a solid return on your investment.
Turbo V ionization source
Unique source architecture achieves high sensitivity over a wide range of flow rates.
OptiFlow Turbo V ionization source
Boost sensitivity with the OptiFlow Turbo V Ion source.
SCIEX OS-MQ software
The best way to process your data. Intelligent algorithms deliver a high degree of accuracy and certainty, without time-consuming manual data review.
Triple quadrupole or QTRAP: Choose the right tool for your workflow
The SCIEX 5500+ system – QTRAP extends the capabilities of traditional triple quadrupole LC‑MS/MS by integrating linear ion trap functionality into the mass analyzer and allowing laboratories to perform high‑sensitivity quantitation and confident confirmation within a single platform.
Rather than choosing between quantitative performance and qualitative insight, SCIEX 5500+ system - QTRAP supports both, enabling laboratories to streamline workflows while maintaining confidence in compound identification, even in complex matrices. Among other attributes, the system allows you to:
- Address quantitation challenges in complex matrices
- Improve throughput by reducing repeat analysis
- Support screening and characterization of unknowns
- Extend workflows beyond targeted quantitation
Not sure which is right for you? Read more about SCIEX QTRAP mass spectrometers here, or talk with a SCIEX specialist to match the right system to your workflow.
Key workflows
Whether for pharmaceutical analysis or food and environmental testing, the SCIEX 5500+ system series deliver the high-quality data you need to make decisions.
Regulated bioanalysis
Get quantitative and qualitative results for a broad range of diverse drug products, with impeccable levels of sensitivity and selectivity. The SCIEX 5500+ system series help to ensure proper dosage, efficacy, and safety.
Water quality testing
Acquire data that meets the low-level trace detection requirements of drinking and wastewater labs.
Antibiotics in food
Regulations determine the allowed levels of veterinary drugs in food products. These low-level residues are detected easily with MRM workflows.
Toxins in food
This high-throughput workflow for mycotoxin testing is critical to achieving regulatory compliance.
Pesticides
A variety of complex matrices are involved when testing for pesticides in fruit, vegetables, water, soil and other samples from emerging markets like cannabis. Quantify large suites of pesticides using these robust workflows.
SCIEX OS software
Engineered to deliver more. Faster.
- Advanced tracking and statistical analysis of instrument and assay performance. Learn more
- Automated acquisition features for: reports, carry-over correction, and rule-based decisions. Learn more
- Control, manage, and audit multiple instruments and projects. Learn more
- Available for all SCIEX OS software-controlled instruments, get a visual dashboard to monitor and track your instruments
- FIA compound optimization with batch mode
- Customization in calculated columns and flagging. Learn more
- Streamline data review and reporting, reducing time spent on data processing. Learn more
- Streamline the calibration curve review process with user-set criteria to automatically remove standard outliers for the calibration curve in the processing method. Learn more
- Are you migrating from a system running Analyst software? We are committed to being a trusted provider and ensuring a smooth and efficient transition. Click here for more information!
Featured resources
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Technical note
Improving confidence in pesticides identification in food using QTRAP technology
The SCIEX 5500+ system – QTRAP enabled data-dependent acquisition (DDA) of enhanced product ion (EPI) scans to produce MS/MS spectra that were used to compare against mass spectral libraries for improved compound identification confidence.
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Simultaneous quantitation and identification of 6 mushroom toxins in poisonous mushrooms
The use of multiple reaction monitoring to trigger the acquisition of enhanced product ion scans produced both MRM data for quantitation and MS/MS spectra for qualitative identification.
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Quantitative and qualitative determination of 130 novel psychoactive substances in whole human blood
Quantitation of 130 novel psychoactive substances in human whole blood, achieving in-sample LOQs down to 0.1 ng/mL for most compounds using an MRM acquisition method.
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